MONOGRAPH OF THE FALCONIDA, 
9 C. fasciolatus, Kp. (Brit. Mus.) — Neck-feathers pointed; 
lower breast, belly, and tibial feathers white, with ash-gray rufous 
broad bars. Port Natal. 
d. Subgenus Cireaétus, Vieill.— The wings extend beyond the 
tip of the tail; eye-region with fine down ; 1-3 quill very distinctly 
emarginated. The Aguiline type. 
10. C. gallieus, G. Gray; F. gallicus, Gmel.; pl. enl. 413; Ag. 
brachydactyla, Mey.; F. leucopsis, Bechst.; ferox, Gmel.—Above 
and breast clear brown; beneath white, with*clear brown bands. 
8. Europe, Africa, Asia. 
11. GC. thoracicus, Cuv.; pectoralis; A. Smith. — Breast with a 
black shield. Dr. Smith describes the young bird soot-black like 
C. funereus. Africa. 
12. C. funereus, Riipp.; cinereus, Vieill. Gal. 12.— Uniform 
soot-black, with a higher bill than the C. thoracicus. Africa. 
e. Subgenus Poliornis, Kp., G. Gray.—Tarsus with large scales; 
the toes with 8-4 transverse scales ; large like small Buteones. The 
Buteonine type. Asia. 
13. C. teesa, Kp.; Buteo teesa, J. Gray, Ind. Zool.; Astur hyder, 
Syk.; Juggar faleon, Lath. —Chin white, with a central oblong 
stripe; breadth between the eyes 30 mm. - 
14. C. liventer, Kp.; FP. liventer, col. 488; Buteo pallidus, Less. 
—Tail rufous, with seven black bars; inner webs of the quill m- 
fous brown, with 3-6 black bands. 
15, C. indicus, Kp.; F. indicus, Lath; poliogenys, Temm. pl. 
col. 325.—Breast and beneath with bars; between the eyes 39 mm. 
broad. 
16. C. pyrrhogenys, Kp.; Buteo pyrrhogenys, Temm. et Schleg., 
Fauna Jap. p. 21.—Between the eyes 30 mm, broad ; tail like an 
Astur, with three black broad bars before the black white-bordered 
terminal band. 
IV. Gexus PANDION, Sav. 
* 
The claws curved in a circle. 
a. Subgenus polioaéius, Kp.—Tarsus and toes with large trans- 
verse scales; wings short. - The Faleonine or Buteonine type. 
Asia. 
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